I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.

SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.